These all have a completely different look and feel because each site makes use of the many customization options that the Twenty Eleven theme offers. Adding the Custom Design upgrade, which is compatible with all WordPress.com themes, takes personalization to the next level by allowing you to choose from over 50 gorgeous Typekit fonts to use for your site’s title, headings, and body text.

Additionally, if you’re familiar with CSS, Custom Design enables you to customize your colors, borders, backgrounds, and even the layout of your blog.

Best of all, you can try before you buy. Head to Appearance → Custom Design in your dashboard to test out Custom Design right now.

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Sincerely appreciate the good work of this organization-WordPress.com. They are innovative and have well experienced personel who are always out to invent something new so as to satisfy the desires of their customers.

First of all, the majority of those 130 “awesome” themes kind of suck.
And compare those 130 themes to the 1000+ (mostly awesome) themes at tumblr.
Not to bash wordpress.com, i’m a new user, tried a couple alternatives and so far, decided to stay here.
I’m just saying. Those 130 themes are meager compared to what others offer (for free) and are anything but awesome.

Past themes are usually not modified once in use, but we welcome your feedback in the Themes forum if you’d like to share specifics. Also, we are adding new themes at a pretty fast clip! Many have post formats and theme options and each one is reviewed by our stellar theme team. I’m sure there is only more awesomeness to look forward to in the world of WordPress.com themes. 🙂 Beyond that, the ability to modify, add to, or even completely create your own design is exactly what the Custom Design upgrade was made for.

Thanks for this post, it came at just the right time for me
I have absolutely no idea about CSS, but changing the fonts was so easy. I think my blog looks refreshed – have you something that works for people too…….. thanks again 🙂

Great idea! You should post meetup info at http://wordpress.org/support/forum/meetups and you might also consider attending a WordCamp. They are great events where you can meet local WordPress users who often already have a meetup or creating one after getting to know each other at WordCamp. If there’s not a WordCamp in your area already, you might consider planning one.

You can add a Facebook like button to each post using the sharing tool, and there is also a Facebook Like Box available on the widgets page in your dashboard if you’d like to add it to a sidebar. Check out Publicize too.

Certainly! You can change the color of the fonts with CSS. First, you need to identify exactly which fonts you’d like to change the color for such as the links or the headings? Then you need to add a CSS rule that fits your theme to the Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page. Changing the type in font the sidebar can be done with the advanced custom font option. We can help walk you through changes like that in the CSS Customization forum. Could you post some specific questions over there?

You can definitely try it! Keep in mind, you can use CSS to style how the image galleries look but you cannot change the way galleries work in general here at WordPress.com. To learn more about CSS, head over to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page and check out the beginner tutorial link above the editor or post something on the CSS Customization forum if you have any specific questions about something you’d like to try out. It would be great to include a link to an example page of your pictures and a detailed explanation of exactly what you’d like to change.